A lame duck managing director would hamstring the Fund.

The US, lame duck president or not, must re engage.

For one thing, it makes the President a lame duck sometime in his second term.

If we do not want the United Nations to be a lame duck, we must dare to give it the wings to fly.

According to Kirchner s inner circle, he wanted to avoid becoming a lame duck and losing power at the end of a second term in office.

Matters were not helped when the Czech government lost a confidence vote midway through its six month presidency of the European Union, leaving a lame duck European Commission.

However, the fate of Bush s friend, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, shows that lame duck status can occur even without a constitutional term limit indeed, without a written constitution at all.

It has become clear that the House Republicans will steadfastly refuse to vote for any increases in tax rates during the current lame duck congressional session.

JERUSALEM The resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria after eight years of saber rattling is not a diversion from the political troubles of Israel s lame duck prime minister.

While a post election, lame duck session of Congress will address the fiscal cliff, the deep differences between Republicans and Democrats on taxes and spending remain wide and difficult to bridge.

Should Bush, a lame duck president with little support at home and less abroad, now be allowed to appoint the next World Bank president? Bush has already demonstrated his lack of judgment.

There is no small irony in the fact that on November 15, America s lame duck president, the unilateralist George W. Bush, is hosting a multilateral conference to discuss reshaping the global economic system.

Sami shot a duck.

So, in four years, Cristina, may feel the same way, and pass the baton back to Néstor, who in turn will retire in four years to avoid becoming a lame duck, and so on.

Azarak thinks Ahmadienajd is a lame duck president who his grasping for sympathy and support in his final months of presidency while his rivals within the regime, such as Larijani, refuse to give him a break.

All of this suggests that, whether in the lame duck congressional session following the elections or in the first few months of the new Congress, US politicians will likely dismantle the fiscal cliff.

By doing so, he avoids the damage to his authority that would be caused by becoming a lame duck, particularly given Russia s servile bureaucracy and its lack of reliable institutions and respected traditions to carry out a smooth transfer of power.

Although Uribe is now technically a lame duck president, he does retain considerable influence, and is trying hard to keep the issue of internal security the central focus of his presidency at the heart of the electoral battle.

He may decide that it is too difficult, in which case he will be a lame duck prime minister, condemned to serve out the three years remaining in Labour s current term with no hope of winning the next election.

But the round of peacemaking that America has recently embarked upon not only comes too late in the political life of a lame duck president who has been defeated at home and abroad it is also ill conceived and unconvincing.

Moreover, George W. Bush seems to be far weaker than any normal lame duck president, creating a global power vacuum that has been filled vigorously by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also the current president of the European Council.

Little wonder, then, that few Americans believe that what walks like a duck and quacks like a duck is actually the phoenix of recovery.

It took some time before the British came to understand that since President Jacques Chirac is a beleaguered lame duck President, who will remain in office but not in power until 2007, he is in no position to agree to any such bargain.

I know how to tell a duck from a goose.

Kees Moeliker How a dead duck changed my life

President George W. Bush s free falling popularity, his loss of control over Congress, the nagging doubts about the economy, and most of all his discredited reputation as a result of the debacle in Iraq all magnify the characteristic weakness of lame duck American presidents.

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Sami went duck hunting last weekend.

Lame Ducks in Love

The follow up summits were lame.

Macksburg is a village in Washington County, Ohio, United States, along the West Fork of Duck Creek.

Critics saw it as a case of two lame ducks propping each other up.

So, while the US may technically be close to the end of a severe recession, most of America is facing a near depression. Little wonder, then, that few Americans believe that what walks like a duck and quacks like a duck is actually the phoenix of recovery.

And he was saying, I'm no more responsible to take care of this environment than a duck is.

On August 31, news broke that Egypt had arrested a spy duck, with a suspicious gadget attached to its feathers.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind

Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.

So this was a problem, and Peter Dodson pointed this out using some duck billed dinosaurs then called Hypacrosaurus.

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind

I don't want to be lame I want to be cool!!

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

So imagine a media atmosphere that isn't dominated by lame stereotypes about gender and other demographic characteristics.

The legs of the lame are not equal so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

A stork accused of being a duck and framed for espionage and arrested in Egypt has ended up as a meal for an Egyptian family.

Like the legs of the lame that hang loose so is a parable in the mouth of fools.